Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.
— Myles Munroe
Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.
— Paulo Coelho
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.
— Randy Alcorn
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.
— Herman Melville
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
— John Adams
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
— John Milton